Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Exam Response (Plan)

Question:“Media production is dominated by global institutions, which sell their products and services to national audiences”.To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Task 1

TOPIC - The BIG area of study

ASPECT - The small focus within that area

VIEWPOINT - The belief about that area

INSTRUCTION - What your answer must do.

“Media production is dominated by global institutions, which sell their products and services to national audiences”.To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Task 2

The King's Speech

'King’s Speech was released in the US. The budget of our film was about 15 million dollars – at the very least they’ll probably spend 25 to 30 million marketing it America so they are going to spend almost double the cost of production on the cost of selling it and that is just in one country. So the sad thing about it is that there is still a kind of lock down on who gets to make films that reach everyone because even if you do effectively make your film for nothing, for a distributor they’ve still got to look at a huge amount of money to get the film out to everyone. So the revolution that I expected when the digital age came when I thought filmmaking would be very democratic hasn’t quite taken off.'

'The other thing that is extraordinary is that you can make a film and you have the right to post it on YouTube.'

'You can put it out in public and get some people seeing it and that’s an unbelievable revolution. Again, in the old days I made my films but no one saw them apart from my family them because how would anyone see them.'British Film Industry - Taken From BBC

The British film industry should back more mainstream movies, a report is expected to recommend next week.Ahead of a visit to Pinewood Studios on Wednesday, Prime Minister David Cameron said the film industry should support "commercially successful pictures".His comments come before the publication of Lord Smith's review into the government's film policy on Monday.The review was commissioned to find out how the industry could offer better support to UK film-making.Mr Cameron praised the UK film industry but said "we should aim even higher, building on the incredible success of recent years".He acknowledged the British film industry had made "a £4bn contribution to the UK economy and an incalculable contribution to our culture".Lord Smith, the former Labour culture secretary, is also expected to recommend developing an export strategy to increase the profits of British films.Speaking to the BBC, director Ken Loach said it was important to have a diverse film industry with a wide range of films to choose from.DreddBudget: $45 millionBox Office Gross: $36.5 million

Distributer: Entertainment Film and Lionsgate

Running time: 95 minutes

Genre: Sci-Fi, Action

Produced by: DNA Films, IM Global and Reliance Entertainment

Actors:

Dredd - Karl Urban

Judge Cassandra Anderson - Olivia Thurlby

Kay - Wood Harris

MaMa - Lena Heady

Location it was filmed in was mainly South Africa, the rest was produced in CGI, the costumes tend to be of a science fiction genre.

This film took $6,278,491 (USA) (21 September 2012) on the opening weekend.

Actors:Chris Pine - Captain KirkBenedict Cumberbatch - KhaanSimon Pegg - ScottyZoe Saldana - UhuraAlice Eve - Dr MarcusZachary Quinto - SpockKarl Urban - Doctor Star Trek were originally going to CGI everything in the film but they decided to build it all because they wanted it to be more realistic and they could afford it, unlike the film 'Dredd' because they didn't have the money so they had to CGI everything. Star Trek was predominantly filmed with in warehouses, however spaceships are filmed on real life huge dustbins and edited away to look Sci-Fi like. They also used an element of CGI, however JJ Abrams (director) wanted to produce as much props as possible and edit them to make it look more life like and real.Star Trek used IMAX camera for 30 minutes of the filmThis film took $70,165,559 (USA) (17 May 2013) on the opening weekend at the cinema.